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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.
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When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
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Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.
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Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
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That's the question: is truth an illusion, or is illusion truth, or are they essentially the same? Myself, I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
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The instant she saw the letter she squinted her eyes and bent her lips in a tough tiny smile that advanced her age immeasurably. Darling, she instructed me, would you reach in the drawer there and give me my purse. A girl doesn't read this sort of thing without her lipstick.
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
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You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.
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At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.
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There was an American girl, Priscilla Johnson. She worked for U.P. in Moscow. She knew [John] Kennedy, and she met [Lee Harvey] Oswald around the same time I did. But I can tell you some­thing else almost as curious.
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I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
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That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.
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She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.
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That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
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I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.
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Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.
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There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.
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